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🇸🇦 "Engulfed: How Saudi Arabia Bought Sport, and the World" is released today by the brilliant James Montague. We're massively looking forward to reading it! We were lucky enough to have James on the pod to chat about Neom SC, the Saudi second tier's trillion dollar club. 🔗

In 1987, the Statistical Institute of Serbia published the result of a poll in which several thousand people who had recently left Kosovo were asked for their reasons. Less than ten stated they left under (political) pressure. Most cited economic reasons.

𝗘𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗪𝗼𝗹𝗳 In this book, the great anthropologist Eric Wolf explains the creation of the modern world as a global process. Chapter 1 can be read here: is.muni.cz/el/cus/jaro201…

Global city research is an integral component of word-systems analysis.

Principal Shane O’Neill revealed the human cost of the cuts and the subjects at the institution which could be dramatically scaled back to plug a £35 million deficit. thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/52…

Is Turkey’s Declining Democracy a Model for Trump’s America? | The New Yorker newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/i…

New online: "Primordialism, perennialism, modernism and ethno-symbolism: The perception of homeland and identity among Azerbaijani Lezgins" by Alex Mutnansky and Mirkamran Huseynli. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… Tariq Modood

Postcard from Kosovo, probably from the 1970s. On the back it is written «Albanian wedding dance». From my postcard collection.

In today’s world, the US is a revolutionary power, while supposedly communist China is a status quo power. Read FT columnist Martin Wolf’s take on how this shift will unsettle the global order: on.ft.com/42hSeXr

Our event on "'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age" with Dr Sanja Vico, Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social, Sandra Obradović, and Birgül Yılmaz has been rescheduled to April 7th at 1700 - do join us! All the links + extra information are at asen.ac.uk/event/vico/

You want to hear more about my new book? Here is the recording of my ASA lecture. Enjoy youtu.be/_cxta9jJYf0?si…

Proud to share my latest piece with Project Syndicate on why the U.S. must lead in fusion energy. This technology has the potential to transform power generation for generations, but only if we act now. Read the full article: project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-…

On the quest for sporting sovereignty IJHS tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The relationship between literary works and national self has always been intriguing. Lots of potential research venues for Kurdish Studies particularly. Here is an interesting example on the coverage of Kurdish national identity in Mehmed Uzun's novels: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Analytical sociology is a tradition in sociology pioneered by Coleman, Boudon & Elster that emphasizes actors & causal processes These books offer good introductions to & assessments of work in this tradition To read the Intro to Rethinking Analyti Soc: elgaronline.com/monochap/book/…

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan" by Nitasha Kaul & Mariah Thornton is now available #OpenAccess! 📜➡️ buff.ly/mAgc6jt

Having a really hard time staying focused on a re-read of Fritz Bartel's The Triumph of Broken Promises this morning. But, wow, his account of Gorbachev's throwing off of the burden of Soviet Empire has some strange, strange resonances right now!

We'll be live in half an hour discussing "'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age" with Dr Sanja Vico, Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social, Sandra Obradović, and Birgül Yılmaz - join us on Zoom, YouTube, or Facebook - details and links at asen.ac.uk/event/vico

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Time to call it a day. 👉 @ gezimk.bsky.social